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Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin's new The Private Eye #1 is now available for download at http://panelsyndicate.com/. In an interesting twist, however, the creative team is telling readers to name their price to purchase the comic. That's right, you can pay as little as $0.01 or as much as $1,000,000 for the 32 page first comic. Also, all downloads are DRM free, meaning that the download is actually yours to own.

So what exactly is The Private Eye #1 about? Without spoiling too much, it's about a futuristic world without Internet and looks to examine how people maintain their anonymity offline. Of course, there's the classic noir elements too. Beautiful women, footchases and discreet meetings all play a part in the first issue. I'd give a full review, but there's no reason for you not to give it a try yourself.

It'll be interesting to see how BKV and Martin's experiment works out. This is the introduction of a new distribution model, one that values content over control and relies on the relationship between the creators and their readers to make a profit. It's also BKV and Marcos Martin, two of the best creators in the industry today, which all but guarantees that the comic will bring in buckets of money.

The Private Eye is exactly what the often stagnated comic industry needs. A fresh story with stunning visuals and a forward thinking way of how to reach more than the 100,000 who make weekly trips to the comic book store. Purchase The Private Eye #1 and be part of a potentially industry changing concept. Or, go and read yet another event comic in which nothing happens. Your call.

Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin's new The Private Eye #1 is now available for download at http://panelsyndicate.com/. In an interesting twist, however, the creative team is telling readers to name their price to purchase the comic. That's right, you can pay as little as $0.01 or as much as $1,000,000 for the 32 page first comic. Also, all downloads are DRM free, meaning that the download is actually yours to own.

So what exactly is The Private Eye #1 about? Without spoiling too much, it's about a futuristic world without Internet and looks to examine how people maintain their anonymity offline. Of course, there's the classic noir elements too. Beautiful women, footchases and discreet meetings all play a part in the first issue. I'd give a full review, but there's no reason for you not to give it a try yourself.

It'll be interesting to see how BKV and Martin's experiment works out. This is the introduction of a new distribution model, one that values content over control and relies on the relationship between the creators and their readers to make a profit. It's also BKV and Marcos Martin, two of the best creators in the industry today, which all but guarantees that the comic will bring in buckets of money.

The Private Eye is exactly what the often stagnated comic industry needs. A fresh story with stunning visuals and a forward thinking way of how to reach more than the 100,000 who make weekly trips to the comic book store. Purchase The Private Eye #1 and be part of a potentially industry changing concept. Or, go and read yet another event comic in which nothing happens. Your call.

The Red Stands for Irony

It seems that BKV has vague plans to release a hard copy (he mentions Kickstarer in his afterwards), but he stated that he'd prefer to have a completed project before anything like that. For the forseeable future, it looks like this is a digitally exclusive.

It seems that BKV has vague plans to release a hard copy (he mentions Kickstarer in his afterwards), but he stated that he'd prefer to have a completed project before anything like that. For the forseeable future, it looks like this is a digitally exclusive.

WTF is this rank?

BlueMole wrote:It's available in PDF, CBR and CBZ right now. All digital.

It seems that BKV has vague plans to release a hard copy (he mentions Kickstarer in his afterwards), but he stated that he'd prefer to have a completed project before anything like that. For the forseeable future, it looks like this is a digitally exclusive.

Thanks! I'll probably break down and get it online then Kickstarter the collection when it comes out.

WTF is this rank?

BlueMole wrote:It's available in PDF, CBR and CBZ right now. All digital.

It seems that BKV has vague plans to release a hard copy (he mentions Kickstarer in his afterwards), but he stated that he'd prefer to have a completed project before anything like that. For the forseeable future, it looks like this is a digitally exclusive.

Thanks! I'll probably break down and get it online then Kickstarter the collection when it comes out.

FROGMAN

It's the first hour. Diamond misses a couple shipments each year due to snow storms or shops are closed after I leave work. I get that you have a very protectionist view of your industry, but harping online about digital doesn't help your business. It does convince me that you work at one of the shops that the market can't really support anyway due to the lack of confidence.

It's the first hour. Diamond misses a couple shipments each year due to snow storms or shops are closed after I leave work. I get that you have a very protectionist view of your industry, but harping online about digital doesn't help your business. It does convince me that you work at one of the shops that the market can't really support anyway due to the lack of confidence.

Rain Partier

mrorangesoda wrote: It's the first hour. Diamond misses a couple shipments each year due to snow storms or shops are closed after I leave work. I get that you have a very protectionist view of your industry, but harping online about digital doesn't help your business. It does convince me that you work at one of the shops that the market can't really support anyway due to the lack of confidence.

It convinces me you smoking crack this morning, I don't work in a comics shop.

Rain Partier

mrorangesoda wrote: It's the first hour. Diamond misses a couple shipments each year due to snow storms or shops are closed after I leave work. I get that you have a very protectionist view of your industry, but harping online about digital doesn't help your business. It does convince me that you work at one of the shops that the market can't really support anyway due to the lack of confidence.

It convinces me you smoking crack this morning, I don't work in a comics shop.

FROGMAN

Victorian Squid wrote:It convinces me you smoking crack this morning, I don't work in a comics shop.

STEE-RIKE!

Bookstore or something? You gave away apple. Was that not a comic thread? Anyway, you get an awful lot of glee out of digital failings. To me right now, you are to digital comics what Nacireman is to the Legion of Superheroes.

FROGMAN

Victorian Squid wrote:It convinces me you smoking crack this morning, I don't work in a comics shop.

STEE-RIKE!

Bookstore or something? You gave away apple. Was that not a comic thread? Anyway, you get an awful lot of glee out of digital failings. To me right now, you are to digital comics what Nacireman is to the Legion of Superheroes.

Rain Partier

mrorangesoda wrote:Bookstore or something? You gave away apple. Was that not a comic thread? Anyway, you get an awful lot of glee out of digital failings. To me right now, you are to digital comics what Nacireman is to the Legion of Superheroes.

Rain Partier

mrorangesoda wrote:Bookstore or something? You gave away apple. Was that not a comic thread? Anyway, you get an awful lot of glee out of digital failings. To me right now, you are to digital comics what Nacireman is to the Legion of Superheroes.

Dang!!!

I used to have goals. They were evil goals, but they were goals. -- Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz

Dragavon wrote:He's being diplomatic again.

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Fat Ollie Weeks wrote:I swear to God, you are so boring sometimes I think you're just a stealth-mod-bot that Jude has coded.